Around 35 years ago, ur company used to build frequency counters using Nixie Tubes. One of our engineers got hold of some Nixie tubes that displayed dollar-signs. He built a device called "ExecuMeetingCounter". It had a couple digital thumbwheel switches labelled "attendees". You dialed in the number of people in the meeting and the device sat on the conference table and tallied up the cost of the meeting (using some arbitrary per-person cost).
Another fellow employee built a Nixie tube clock, but it used a 3-foot long glass PENDULUM as the rate determining device. A photodetector sensed the passing of the pendulum, incrementing the clock counters and sending a pulse to a coil to give the pendulum a "kick" to keep it going. It was an amusing mixture of old and new (at that time) technology.
You're confused. Why should MediaOne care how my machine sets its MAC address, so long as there's only one NIC connected to the cable modem? It's easier for them than to have them change their idea of my MAC address when, at their request,I switch from my normal machine to the Micro$oft machine and then change it back after the problem is debugged. It's easier for me than swapping the card between machines and totally equivalent from their viewpoint. The Micro$oft machine exists solely so I can plug it in in place of my real machine when I call MediaOne with a problem.
My e-mail address is petersonp@genrad.com. I have no reason to hide behind anonymous postings.
I don't know about Windoze machines or MacOS, but all Unix varieties I know about let you easily change the MAC address, so that's not a reliable identifier.
This is a very useful feature; it allows me to have a Windoze machine at home to connect to my cable modem when I have a problem with MediaOne and they refuse to admit to the existence of other than Windoze and MacOS. At other times, my Linux machine, normally connected to the net, uses that Windoze box's MAC address, (the one that MediaOne associates with my connection), rather than the one programmed into its NIC. This means I don't have to swap NICs between the two machines to humor MediaOne.
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"blam" isn't very informative or helpful. I got the same message and have 96 Meg ("free" agrees) in this RH5.2 Linux machine. I found no log file or other clues in either the invocation directory or anywere under ~/.loki.
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If it wasn't clear, the ExecuMeetingCouunter ran continuously during the meeting, incrementing the cost by an appropriate amount each second.
Around 35 years ago, ur company used to build frequency counters using Nixie Tubes. One of our engineers got hold of some Nixie tubes that displayed dollar-signs. He built a device called "ExecuMeetingCounter". It had a couple digital thumbwheel switches labelled "attendees". You dialed in the number of people in the meeting and the device sat on the conference table and tallied up the cost of the meeting (using some arbitrary per-person cost).
Another fellow employee built a Nixie tube clock, but it used a 3-foot long glass PENDULUM as the rate determining device. A photodetector sensed the passing of the pendulum, incrementing the clock counters and sending a pulse to a coil to give the pendulum a "kick" to keep it going. It was an amusing mixture of old and new (at that time) technology.
Only NT and Win2K? I would have thought Win9x would outnumber NT and 2K.
You're confused. Why should MediaOne care how my machine sets its MAC address, so long as there's only one NIC connected to the cable modem? It's easier for them than to have them change their idea of my MAC address when, at their request,I switch from my normal machine to the Micro$oft machine and then change it back after the problem is debugged. It's easier for me than swapping the card between machines and totally equivalent from their viewpoint. The Micro$oft machine exists solely so I can plug it in in place of my real machine when I call MediaOne with a problem.
My e-mail address is petersonp@genrad.com. I have no reason to hide behind anonymous postings.
This is a very useful feature; it allows me to have a Windoze machine at home to connect to my cable modem when I have a problem with MediaOne and they refuse to admit to the existence of other than Windoze and MacOS. At other times, my Linux machine, normally connected to the net, uses that Windoze box's MAC address, (the one that MediaOne associates with my connection), rather than the one programmed into its NIC. This means I don't have to swap NICs between the two machines to humor MediaOne.
"blam" isn't very informative or helpful. I got the same message and have 96 Meg ("free" agrees)
in this RH5.2 Linux machine. I found no log file or other clues in either the invocation directory or anywere under ~/.loki.